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WELL, HERE’S ONE way to make the best of an absolutely heartbreaking situation.

California woman Kari Duane’s oldest daughter, Quinn, was due to get married on Saturday – but a week before the wedding, she rang her mother to tell her that the groom had called it off.

KCRA reports that the deposits for the $35,000 (€31,000) wedding were already paid, and non-refundable.

So Kari decided to give the wedding feast to the homeless people of Sacramento instead – according to Buzzfeed, as many as 90 guests were served a four-star meal, which included salmon and steak.

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One of the guests, Rashad Abdullah, brought his wife and five children, and said the meal was a “blessing”.

When you’re going through a hard time and [it's] a struggle for you to get out and do something different with your family, it was really a blessing.

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The non-refundable flowers from the wedding were donated to a local nursing home, and Kari and Quinn will turn the honeymoon into a mother-daughter holiday.

The bride-to-be found it too painful to attend the party, but her mother (pictured above) was happy they could make something positive out of a terrible situation.

I feel a lot of heartache and heartbreak for her, but I will take something good from this, I will.

Written by Valerie Loftus and originally published on DailyEdge.ie